Stones’ £4m payday . . . and that’s just for a secret warm-up before the main £6m show!

WHEN The Rolling Stones play a gig, they’re used to doing it on a grand scale, performing in front thousands of delirious fans at packed-out stadiums.

But last week the band sprang a surprise by playing a secret gig –for unsuspecting employees and guests of a truck company.

The private party, for just 1,000 lucky people in Las Vegas, was certainly a nice little earner for Mick Jagger and his bandmates Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood, with each of them pocketing £1million, according to insiders.

And it served as a warm-up for a much bigger event on Friday when the Stones joined Bob Dylan to open the Desert Trip festival in California in front of 75,000 fans, earning the stars another cool £6million in the process.

The band – who are set to release a new album, their first in a decade – caught their small audience in Las Vegas unaware on Monday. The trucking executives and their spouses had politely endured a jazz trio before being ushered into an adjoining ballroom, where the Stones burst into song. And the